Everyone must have been through a significant change in one point of their life. The significant change that I been through was in my early age. During those few years attending to Atlantic Middle School, I survived from cultural differences and language barriers.
When I was fourteen years old I traveled by myself from my home in Fuzhou (a city in southern China) to Boston, Massachusetts to reunite with my family, who had been living in the United States for the past eight years. As the plane was landing in Boston Logan Airport, I looked out the window at the sparkling gold ocean below, and the city lit up by brilliant lights; I was full of nervous expectation!
I pushed my luggage through the gate; I couldn’t believe the day I had dreamt of for so long had arrived. When I was a kid, I used to watch my classmate’s parents come to pick them up from school, and I would
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But these animal studies suggest that people who have learned to associate a place with a positive feeling or with hopes that the place will heal will benefit from simply being in that place. (Sternberg 199)
There are many happy memory in Atlantic, and many difficulties were solved at Atlantic. When I feel stress or having a bad day and didn’t know what to do, I would go back to Atlantic and chat with the teachers to ask for advices. Besides from talking to teachers at Atlantic, I would also walk around Atlantic Middle School and the neighborhood to revisit the place where happy things happened.
Since the big change happened in my life, Quincy is the first place where I live when I came to the United States. And Atlantic Middle School is first school where I educated. I have a lot of experienced in Atlantic, both happiness and pain. It makes me fell in love with the American culture and join the family. The United States and China are totally different from the aspects of culture, languages and